16. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:
€ million |
|
2015/16 |
|
2016/17 |
Wages and salaries |
|
3,439 |
|
3,247 |
Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits and related employee benefits |
|
794 |
|
768 |
thereof for post-employment benefits |
|
(65) |
|
(35) |
|
|
4,233 |
|
4,016 |
Wages and salaries shown in personnel expenses include expenses relating to restructuring and severance payments of €92 million (2015/16: €224 million). Variable remuneration based on the EBITaC metric declined from €75 million in financial year 2015/16 to €67 million in financial year 2016/17. Wages and salaries also include expenses for share-based payments totalling €31 million (2015/16: €26 million).
Annual average number of group employees:
Number of employees by headcount |
|
2015/16 |
|
2016/17 |
Blue collar/white collar |
|
153,442 |
|
151,777 |
Apprentices/trainees |
|
3,410 |
|
3,305 |
|
|
156,852 |
|
155,082 |
This includes an absolute number of 39,872 (2015/16: 41,521) part-time employees. The number of employees working abroad amounted to 98,557 (2015/16: 98,651). This includes 97,316 (2015/16: 97,429) employees. An additional 1,241 (2015/16: 1,222) apprentices were employed outside of Germany.